Episode Preview:

In this episode of the Wake Up Eager Workforce podcast, host Suzie Price shares her personal journey of overcoming burnout and reclaiming her energy and focus with powerful tools to help you get out of a funk. Drawing from her expertise and years of coaching leaders, Suzie introduces a fresh, science-backed approach to realign your life with clarity and purpose.

Through the lens of TriMetrix and Axiology, Suzie breaks down simple, practical tools that have helped her and countless others transform from stress and overwhelm to energy and alignment. She explains the 1% Solution (Tune In Time) as an easy-to-implement method that resets your mind in just 15 minutes a day, and how consistency can lead to 91 hours of mental calm over the course of the year.

Whether you're feeling burnt out, stuck, or simply need a mental reset, this episode provides a clear roadmap to help you overcome those moments and wake up eager every day.

Read the transcript for Episode 140 below and discover how these tools can transform your mindset, boost your energy, and put you back in control of your life.

Takeaways of Episode #133 ---

• Tune In Time, or TNT
  Fifteen minutes a day — just one percent of your time — can completely change your energy and focus. It's the pause that resets your perspective and builds 91 hours of calm clarity over the year. As author Greg McKeown reminds us, "If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will." Those 15 minutes are your daily investment in calm, focus, and ownership of your time.
• The Intentional Focus Method
  You can't always control what happens around you, but you can control what you focus on. When you shift from frustration to appreciation, you change your entire emotional landscape — and the results that follow. As Abraham-Hicks says, "You have the ability to focus, and therefore, the ability to choose the way you feel."
• Self-mastery is true power
  Every time you choose to focus on what's going well, to plan your six must-do's, or to give yourself grace, you strengthen your alignment. Because the most powerful leaders — and the most peaceful people — are the ones who know how to manage their own focus.As Lao Tzu reminds us, "Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."

In this episode:

[00:05:20] Suzie Price: "Getting out of a funk isn't about waiting for motivation to strike. It's about building small, intentional actions that create momentum."

[00:17:43] Suzie Price: "The 1% Solution isn't about big, overnight changes. It's about dedicating 15 minutes a day to realign your focus and reduce stress over time."

[00:29:10] Suzie Price: "Self-leadership is the key to everything. When we lead ourselves well, we're better equipped to show up for others and create the life we truly desire."

[00:33:33] Suzie Price: "Transformation happens in the small moments. It's those consistent actions that, over time, create the biggest results in our lives."

Episode Overview:

In this episode of the Wake Up Eager Workforce Podcast, host Suzie Price takes leaders behind the scenes of one of the most costly challenges in business—bad hires—and reveals how to eliminate guesswork with The FIT Formula, a data-driven system for hiring, onboarding, and developing top talent.

Suzie begins by addressing a hard truth: most hiring failures don't happen because of a lack of skill, but because of missing intangibles like poor self-management, weak communication, or misaligned motivation. With warmth and clarity, she introduces the Performance Dashboard—a simple yet powerful tool that helps leaders define the top three to five priorities that drive success in any role.

Through her signature car analogy, Suzie breaks down the five components of true fit: Roads Traveled (experience), How They Drive (behavior style), Under the Hood (personal skills), Gas in the Tank (motivators), and Where They Park (culture fit). She reminds listeners that hiring based on résumés alone is like buying a car just for its color—you need to know what powers it, how it performs, and where it belongs.

Suzie also shares real-world stories of mismatched hires—including a cautionary tale about a brilliant but misaligned physician—and how TriMetrix® tools reveal the hidden traits that predict true success. From there, she shows how the FIT Formula extends far beyond hiring, becoming a lifelong system for coaching, engagement, and leadership growth.

By the end of the episode, you'll understand why clarity is kindness in leadership—and how the FIT Formula gives you confidence, structure, and heart in every hiring and development decision.

Whether you're hiring your next team member or coaching your current stars, this episode will help you create alignment, reduce drama, and build a Wake Up Eager Workforce—one great hire at a time.

Read the full transcript of Episode 139: The FIT Formula — From Hiring Hopes to High-Performance Habits below and discover how to turn every hiring hope into a high-performance habit.

Takeaways of Episode #139 ---

• Clarity Creates Confidence: The Performance Dashboard transforms hiring chaos into precision by defining the top 3–5 priorities that truly drive success in any role.
• Hire the Whole Person: The FIT Formula helps leaders look beyond the résumé to understand how someone works, why they're motivated, and where they'll thrive.
• Data Drives Development: Superior Performance Attributes (SPAs)Hiring Templates and TriMetrix tools extend far beyond hiring—they fuel onboarding, coaching, and leadership growth throughout the employee lifecycle.

In this episode:

Suzie Price [00:04:11]: "Ninety percent of the time when someone is let go, it's not because of their résumé—it's because of missing intangibles like poor self-management, low accountability, weak communication, or misaligned motivation."

Suzie Price [00:05:28]: "Start where clarity begins—the Performance Dashboard. It pinpoints the three to five priorities that define success in a role and gives leaders and employees a shared vision of what winning looks like."

Suzie Price [00:12:59]: "Hiring based on the résumé alone is like buying a car just for the color of the paint. You need to know what's under the hood, how they drive, what fuels them, and where they'll thrive."

Suzie Price [00:22:08]: "Stop betting on gut instinct and incomplete data. Start hiring and developing with rigor and heart—because when people are in roles that fit, they don't just perform, they thrive."